27 March 2015

5 Things You Need to Know Before You Go: All of the Feels Edition

Everything in the sports world this week made me emotional. True, I would get emotional over a pizza buffet, but still.... these are some great stories you need to hear from this week!

The 5 Things You Need To Know Before You Go: All of the Feels Edition

Let's start with THE best news of the week, month, year! We first met Leah back in September when the Cincinnati Bengals became my honorary favorite team in the NFL when they signed Devon Still to the practice squad so he could keep his health insurance and pay for his baby girl, Leah's, cancer treatments. Devon, just a week later, was brought back up to the 53 man roster, and proceeds from his jersey sales were donated to Pediatric Care Cancer Research. That story is still so beautiful to me.

A photo posted by Devon Still (@man_of_still75) on Mar 25, 2015 at 1:29pm PDT

What a dad. What an incredibly strong, inspiring little girl. Go take on the world now, Leah!

All of the feels.

I'm sure you all know Dean Smith who passed away last month at the age of 83. He was the former UNC coach, and one of the most legendary basketball coaches of all time. Yesterday it was made public that he had left something in his will to every single player that he had ever played at UNC.

He left every single former varsity basketball letterman player of his a $200 check with instructions to have dinner out, on him.

All of the feels.

I've got a player in the NCAA tourney I think you will LOVE. Meet Nigel Hayes, one of Wisconsin's best players and your new favorite person in the tournament. First, he got all excited that he would be occupying Kobe Bryant's locker during the sweet 16....

Holy adorable. I just cannot stand it. You just gained a fan, Wisconsin... and by Wisconsin I mean Nigel!

All of the feels!!

Our girl, Mo'Ne Davis will have a Disney movie made about her, but that isn't what I want to talk about today. This douchenozzle (sorry, no other word for him) college baseball player sent out the most disgusting tweet about Mo'Ne and her Disney movie. I'm not posting the tweet, but it was foul and the school he played for immediately dismissed him from the team.

What was Mo'Ne's response?

First, she makes an appeal to the school to reinstate him and says this on SportsCenter....

“Everyone makes mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance. I know right now he’s really hurt and I know how hard he worked to get where he is. I mean, I was pretty hurt on my part but I know he’s hurting even more.”

WHOA.

I'm not adult enough to forgive the jerk yesterday who didn't wait in line like the rest of us, and cut me off to jump the line on the exit ramp... yet she can be this mature, compassionate and understanding about this douchenozzle??? Get it girl, I look up to you.

All of the feels.

Images via: Ben Platt / MLB.com:

Will Ferrell played every position on the field, and played for 10 different teams on Tuesday. I'm not kidding.

Traded, released, picked up off waivers... Will traveled from team to team by van and helicopter. He did this all in partnership with HBO and Funny Or Die, in an effort to raise money to support the fight against cancer. A lot of money. As in nearly a million raised.

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I've been LOVING all the funny moments that Nigel has been making during this march madness! I was JUST watching the video last night of him making the comment about the Stenographer. Too funny! BTW love your blog! I found it from the list of awesome bloggers Samantha from the Samantha Show suggested. You now have a new reader ;)

Girl why you got me crying at my desk? My besties went to Wisco, so I'm rooting for them to win it all (which is why I didn't pick them on any of my brackets). Sidenote, I hate Will Ferrell but that's pretty funny and awesome.

All of the feels! I love it. This was a great round-up. Will Ferrell is probably my favorite ever because he always makes me smile. And, you know, smiling's my favorite :) And Nigel definitely wins the cuteness award.

Definitely all, all of the feels! As a coach, I just about died when I heard about Coach Smith. That's incredible and I can only imagine what each of his players felt when they received that letter. Happy Friday!

I love that story about Will Ferrell! I love it when he's hilarious, but especially when he's hilarious for a good cause. I'm so awful with sports stuff...I'm going to link up a vlog my husband and I did about March Madness...basically, I pick the elite eight by the sounds of their team names, and whether not they have a pleasant climate.

I love all these things so, so much. The Will Ferrell thing made me ridiculously happy. I love it. And I'm so happy about Leah being in remission. And that thing about Nigel is freaking adorable. And Mo'Né and the will and just, everything is awesome!

Thank you for talking about Dean Smith today. It really makes my heart happy to know that people all over recognize how amazing of a man he was. Going to the Dean Dome for basketball games always makes me beyond proud.

wow so awesome and I cannot even imagine how you stay on top of all this I had a hard time balancing the sens hockey, bruins hockey and march madness last night let alone all this random awesomeness you found

Listening to Mo'Ne speak on television about reinstating that Bloomsberg douche and how everyone makes mistakes was amazing. She is so mature! Also, Nigel is seriously my favorite. I might be pulling for Wisconsin if only just for him haha. Seriously, this is the best collection of "feels" news stories!

It makes me so happy that two of your five happy feels are Big10 related! I bought a Still jersey when PSU re-issued them last fall and I am so excited to break it out for the spring game in celebration! And I cannot get over the Wisconsin player, he is so adorable!

I'm so happy to hear that little girl is cancer free! Hooray! I remember hearing and loving how the team and fans gathered around her when she first got diagnosed. It was one of the most moving sports related stories I had heard.

You already know how I feel about darling Leah, so WOOHOO!!!! I hadn't heard about Dean Smith's will and now my eyes are tearing up in the office. Ugh. Mo'Ne Davis is my spirit animal and seriously, the Wisconsin guy cracks me up. He better have AT LEAST gotten a date out of the stenographer for that.